Pauline Lucca
Pauline Lucca, gelegentl. Pauline Lucka, ( born April 25, 1841 in Vienna, † February 28, 1908 in Vienna) was an Austrian opera singer (soprano ).
Life
Pauline was the daughter of the merchant Joseph Koppel 's and his wife Barbara Willer. 1834 converted the family from the Jewish to the Catholic faith. She took it the name " Lucca " to. The doctor Samuel Lucka was her paternal uncle, the writer Emil Lucka and Mathilde Prager her cousin and her cousin.
Her first vocal training received Lucca in the choir of the Church of St. Charles Joseph Rupprecht. Later she became a student of Otto Uffmann and Richard Levy. Funded by their teachers, Lucca soon got small roles at the Vienna Court Opera and was hired in 1859 at age 18 as a soloist at the theater to Olomouc. There, she made her debut in the role of Elvira ( Ernani by Giuseppe Verdi in ). The following year, Lucca was invited to Prague, where she sang the Valentine ( in Les Huguenots by Giacomo Meyerbeer ) and the title role in Bellini's Norma with great success.
Meyerbeer hired her in 1861 to the Royal Court Opera in Berlin, where she was taught by him yet. He sat through that Lucca was offered a contract for life at the Berlin Court Opera. This was supported amongst others, the young Prussian King Wilhelm I and Otto von Bismarck. Both were declared admirers of her singing and her acting.
1865 Lucca married the Prussian officer and landowner Adolf von Rhaden, with whom she would have a daughter. During a tour of the USA in 1873 set them in America through the divorce to marry his second wife of Matthias Wall Mayrhofen.
From Berlin Lucca undertook many guest appearances throughout Germany, to London and Saint Petersburg. As Mathilde Mallinger was engaged at the Berlin Court Opera, Lucca saw in it a serious competitor and announced with immediate effect after an argument. In the following years she appeared only in America, and later in Vienna, from 1880 again in Berlin, where she saw renew itself formerly celebrated triumphs.
1889 Lucca passed from the stage, withdrew into private life and settled on her country estate near Zurich.
Pauline Lucca died 1908 in Vienna; after the cremation in Gotha, she was at the cemetery of St. Helena, Baden, buried in Vienna.
Roles (selection)
Audiences and critics loved Lucca's official representation. In addition, is always praised her expressive voice, '' ' had a circumference of g -c. Her repertoire included more than 60 games German, French and Italian operas.
- Zerlina in Fra Diavolo by Daniel- François -Esprit Auber
- Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Selica in L' Africaine by Giacomo Meyerbeer
- Marguerite in Faust by Charles Gounod
- Pamina in The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Agathe in Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber
- Leonora in Il trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi
- The title role in Carmen by Georges Bizet
- Farinelli in Carlo Broschi or the devil's share of Daniel -François- Esprit Auber
This and that
Through a contractual clause they could be exempt from any participation in the operas of Richard Wagner.
Pauline Lucca in honor of two dishes were created: the salty - eyes Lucca ( Lucca also toast ) and the same sweet donuts pastries. A bust of Pauline Lucca by Gustav Willgohs is considered lost.